James Werrell

Years ago, I began routinely picking up green planters at the Goodwill, yard sales, flea markets. You know the ones I’m talking about, the chunky, mass-produced ceramic pieces produced by the thousands at potteries in central Ohio from the turn of the century through the 1960s.

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Just as I stepped out onto the open lot, my foot hit a patch of ice and I began desperately flailing to keep from falling. For a few seconds, I resembled one of those radical interpreters of modern dance, arms going in every direction, feet flying and flapping, body twisting and contorting every...

The cartoonists and satirists at France’s Charlie Hebdo magazine who were murdered Jan. 7 by Muslim extremists for their “blasphemous” depictions of Mohammad operated on a higher plane than Larry Flynt, the notorious publisher of Hustler magazine. But Flynt does rank as an irrepressible...

“The Interview” now ranks among the best known movies that almost no one has seen. It gained instant notoriety as the movie that so infuriated North Korea and its leader, Kim Jong Un, that Pyongyang decided to retaliate with cyberterrorism.